CheckIfFatal is used to handle the errors being returned from the Postgres driver.

CloseDB is used to close any existing database connections to the Experiment DB .

showAllTrace is a utility function useful for when the database comes up to dump information about the session and other parameters that can be useful in debugging issues with parameters set by the operational side of the system.

DeactivateExperiment is used to conceal experiments from future operations unless special flags are set.

Status is used to retrieve the main eco system status from a server.

InsertExperiment is used to insert a single dataset record into the postgres database.

SaveLog is used to insert a logging record either originating from the master, or from a client into the logging table .

SelectExperiment is used to retrieve one or more experiments that have been registered with the service.

SelectExperimentWide is used to retrieve one or more experiments that have been registered with the service along with all of the layer details.

StartDB is used to open and then attempt to test the connection to the database, which contains state information for components of the platform ecosystem .

ExperimentData will hold data ready for being handled by the SQL layer for experiments.

Log is used to hold unstructured log entries that will be marshalled .